The issue of paternity is something I see all the time as a Jacksonville Child Custody and Child Support Lawyer. In Florida a child does not have a legal father if the mother was not married when the child was born. Legal paternity must be established for the child in…
As a Florida child support attorney and a Florida divorce attorney, I regularly keep up with new laws effecting my clients. As such, there is a new child support law in Florida that states if the non-majority time-sharing parent spends more than twenty percent (20%) of overnights with the child…
As a Jacksonville, Florida custody attorney, I have seen a big shift in the ideology of the courts in providing for joint custody of children in Florida. However, couples experiencing divorce in Florida are usually unaware of the difference between shared parental responsibility (aka “joint custody”) and 50/50 timesharing. In…
Reports are out that Charlie Sheen has come up clean in a drug test that he took earlier this month as part of a child custody settlement. As a Jacksonville Child Custody Attorney I have seen many instances where a mother or father is concerned that their child’s other parent…
When parties divorce in Jacksonville, Florida, a Florida divorce lawyer can help you through difficult issues such as co-parenting beyond divorce, financial issues including mortgage issues, division of property and most importantly, in dealing with the best interests of your child or children. Parents who divorce in Florida and everywhere…
I’ve been practicing as a Jacksonville, Florida custody attorney for almost ten years, and in most of my custody cases, I can’t understand how at one point, the parties loved each other so much that they created a human being only now to glare at one another with absolute hate.…
An article titled, “Breaking up is hard to do because of the economy,” describes how many couples although wanting to file for divorce are stuck in their marriages because of financial woe’s. The article describes a couple who made the decision to end their marriage in the fall of 2008,…
A concerned Nebraska mother learned the hard way that recording someone without his or her knowledge violates the Federal Wiretap Act. The mother and her father were hit with a combined $120,000 penalty for putting an audio recorder in the mother’s daughter’s teddy bear. An article titled, “Modern Divorce: Wiretapped…
An American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) survey conducted just this past year found that four out of five lawyers reported an increasing number of their divorce cases citing evidence derived from social networking sites in the past five years, with Facebook leading the pack. As a Jacksonville Divorce and…
Florida same-sex couples, Florida heterosexual couples . . . they both show concern when a family member is unable or unwilling to be the parent that every child deserves. If you have a sister, brother, or any relative who is unable to properly care for their child due to substance…